What harm would befall the McCain campaign if Palin sat for one major television interivew with, say, a gentle but probing Diane Sawyer... and then an interview with her local paper in Alaska... and then gave no press avails and held no press conferences. The media would complain a lot. Would people care?

This morning on the Don Imus show, historian Michael Beschloss suggested something similar, that Palin should be interviewed on Fox News Channel and then stay away from any other press encounters.